Music teaching aid

a teaching aid and music technology, applied in the field of music teaching aids, can solve the problems of engendering a lasting association, difficult for a student, and sometimes a music teacher, to determine, and even more difficult to rewrite or "transpose" music written in one key into another key
US6031172AInactive Publication Date: 2000-02-29MUSACUS INT
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Authority / Receiving Office
US · United States
Patent Type
Patents(United States)
Current Assignee / Owner
MUSACUS INT
Publication Date
2000-02-29
Estimated Expiration
Not applicable · inactive patent

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Abstract

A music teaching aid having a number of reference rings that are positioned so as to have independent rotatable movement on a base member. Depending on the shape of the base member, the reference rings are either substantially coaxial cylindrical sleeves or concentric rings. Each reference ring has an outside surface which is divided into segments each of which displays indicia representing a note of the chromatic scale and which is identifiable by a predetermined color coding system such that when segments of the reference rings are aligned in accordance with the predetermined color coding system, corresponding segments of each successive ring will represent the notes of a non-chromatic scale.
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Description

The invention relates to a music teaching aid, in particular, a device that can be used to calculate various forms of musical scales and display them in all keys simultaneously.Sounds recognised as music can be characterized generally in terms of rhythm and pitch. The pitch is determined by the frequency of the sound wave that is produced by a musical instrument or human larynx. The difference in pitch between a wave of frequency f and a wave of frequency 2f is termed octave and is subdivided into eight "notes" which when played in succession comprise a scale.An octave, more specifically, consists of 12 half-notes or semitones which when played successively produce a chromatic scale (ie C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A# and B). The difference in pitch or interval spanning two semitones is called a tone and the sequences of tones and semitones characterize a variety of non-chromatic scales such as the major, harmonic minor and melodic minor scales. The ascending major scale for ex...

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